The symposium will be held online, in two days: Tuesday, July 7th; and Thursday, July 16th. It will feature presentations from a diversity of postdocs in short (4 minutes) and long talks (10 minutes), covering a large range of topics and fields of research at Yale. Poster sessions will be hosted online on padlet, allowing interactions and research discussions in more details.
Please check below our symposium program. If you have not done it yet, please register to attend our virtual 3rd Annual Postdoc Symposium. See you all online.
Day 1 - Tuesday, July 7th
| Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
Title |
| 1:00-1:15pm |
Opening remarks |
Shirin Bahmanyar |
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| 1:30-2:20pm |
Talks |
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10 min |
Eric Emmons |
Histaminergic regulation of stereotyped movements in a mouse model of repetitive motor behavior |
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Flash talk |
Gita Pathak |
Epigenetic changes associated with heart disease in African American carriers of Val122Ile mutation highlights connection to amyloid circuit |
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Flash talk |
Roozbeh Yousefzadeh |
Auditing and Debugging Deep Learning Models via Decision Boundaries: Individual-level and Group-level Analysis |
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Flash talk |
Martina Vuk |
Vulnerability and Flourishing in time of Covid-19 |
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10 min |
Nicole Lake |
Patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation across 15,000 individuals in the gnomAD population database |
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Flash talk |
Joao Bimbo |
Virtual Reality as a tool for upper limb prosthesis development |
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Flash talk |
Evelyn Jensen |
Using whole genome sequences to understand the evolutionary history of the Galapagos giant tortoises |
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Flash talk |
Lei Shen |
Chymotrypsin like elastase 2A’s role in glucose and lipid metabolism |
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Flash talk |
Anderson Brito |
Genomic epidemiology reveals the resurgence of dengue virus post Zika in Brazil |
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Questions |
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| Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
Title |
| 2:30-3:30pm |
Talks |
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10 min |
Chantal Vogels |
Emergence and spread of Powassan virus in the northeastern United States |
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Flash talk |
Alexander Abrams |
Cell-specific Mechanisms of Neuronal Aging |
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Flash talk |
Frank Wendt |
Human evolution influenced the genetic architecture of brain structure and of behavioral and neuropsychiatric traits |
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10 min |
Daniel F Levey |
Reproducible Genetic Risk Loci in Anxiety: Results from ~200,000 Million Veteran Program Participants |
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Flash talk |
Sounak Ghosh Roy |
Investigation of the interdependence of polycystic kidney and liver disease genes Dnajb11 and Sec63 |
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Flash talk |
Stephanie Perniciaro |
Persistence of vaccine-serotype invasive pneumococcal disease in older adults in Germany |
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Flash talk |
Josephine Rogers |
The Spirit of Light: Then and Now |
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Questions |
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Keynote |
James Hamblin |
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Day 2 - Thursday, July 16th
| Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
Title |
| 1:00-1:05pm |
Opening remarks |
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| 1:05-2:05pm |
Talks |
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10 min |
Alain Pe-Curto |
The Pure Affect |
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Flash talk |
Guarav Singh |
Design of Modular Soft Robots Inspired by Muscle-like Cellular Architectures |
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Flash talk |
Milena Stanojlovic |
Targeting the Barriers in the Addiction Continuum of Care with Peer Recovery Support |
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Flash talk |
Xiaona Lu |
Airway volume is restricted by subcranial skeletal structural development in Apert syndrome |
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10 min |
Jonathan DeLong |
Role of cholesterol in the immune response after hemorrhagic stroke |
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Flash talk |
Vidyadhara D J |
Auxilin knockout mice: a window to early mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis |
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Flash talk |
Sree Kalyan Patiballa |
Systematic design of deformable mechanical metamaterials |
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Flash talk |
Pablo Fernandez-Tussy |
miR-33 promotes Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease progression by targeting metabolic functions in the hepatocytes |
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10 min |
Viktor Feketa |
How does the brain know it’s cold? |
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Questions |
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| Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
Title |
| 2:20 - 3:20pm |
Talks |
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10 min |
Diego Grinman |
PTHrP Overexpression in Mammary Tumors Causes Anorexia: A Possible Role of Lipocalin-2 |
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Flash talk |
Gerald Jordan |
Generativity among persons with mental illness: results from a mixed methods study |
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Flash talk |
Jennifer Blackburn |
Uncovering the secrets of youth: using proteomic profiling of the infant primate brain’s dopamine system to find mechanisms that protect against aging and disease |
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Flash talk |
Armin Nowroozpoor |
Using mass spectrometry to identify biomarkers for coronary microvascular dysfcuntion |
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10 min |
Marcie Wiggins |
Color stories: exploring workshop practices through the physical examination of Jain illuminated manuscripts |
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Flash talk |
Lauren Hunter Naples |
A Collaboratory for Inclusion: Serving Student Diversity through Districtwide Social Emotional Learning Implementation |
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Flash talk |
Konstantinos Papazoglou |
The Role of Compassion Fatigue in Understanding the Relationship Between Moral Injury and PTSD Clusters among Police Officers |
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Flash talk |
Eric Woodcock |
Morphine Administration Evokes a Neuroimmune Response in Humans |
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10 min |
Veronica Weser |
Feasibility Study of a Virtual Reality Game Prototype for Adolescent E-Cigarette Prevention |
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Questions |
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| 3:20 - 4:00pm |
Keynote |
Siouxsie Wiles |
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| 4:00pm |
Awards and Close |
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| 4:15pm |
Networking |
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